Brian O'Donnell
@Brian_ODonnell
Working to conserve #nature #biodiversity #oceans #wildlife and for a healthy planet for all. Director of #CampaignForNature. Tweets are my own.
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13-06-2009 19:22:05
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🏞️ NEWS: US Department of the Interior today took action to protect millions of acres in Alaska, helping safeguard the cultural, historic and subsistence resources of the Indigenous people who have called this place home since time immemorial.
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Having experienced both the Western Arctic & Brooks Range up close, I know how irreplaceable these landscapes are. Industrial scale drilling, mining, and trucking would have destroyed these wild places. I applaud President Biden for protecting public lands that belong to every American.
Fantastic news from Argentina’s National Congress Deputy Facundo Manes announcing the aim to protect 30% of their EEZ with an additional 200,000 km2 through 7 new MPAs! This bill was just presented at congress.
Manes Berazategui Misión Atlántico #30x30
Biodiversity loss is disproportionately driven by consumption in rich nations—and the impact of that loss is disproportionately borne by the Global South. Alongside my fellow members of the Campaign for Nature Global Steering Committee, Russ Feingold and Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, I met with UN
I am grateful that the UN Secretary General António Guterres was able to spend some time meeting with members of the Campaign for Nature's Global Steering Committee to discuss the importance of #biodiversity Russ Feingold Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda
Congratulations to Astrid Shomaker on her appointment as the next Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity UN Biodiversity and thanks to David Cooper for his leadership as acting Executive Secretary during the past year.
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